..6 months and 26% seen in the EORTC/NCIC phase III study. These results are encouraging and suggest that the current treatment of glioblastoma nationwide is now associated with an improved survival compared to previous time cohorts...

Racial differences in stage at diagnosis and survival from epithelial ovarian cancer: a fundamental cause of disease approach

Seijeoung KimUniversity of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, Division of Health Policy and Administration, Chicago, IL 60612, United StatesSoc Sci Med 71:274-81. 2010

..2. The findings show that fundamental cause perspective provides a potential framework to explore subtleties in racial disparities, with which broader social causes may be accounted for in explaining post diagnosis racial differences...